He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
May 2026
A blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy
Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The…
Corgi Launches AI Liability Insurance
Corgi, a new insurance company backed by Y Combinator, is now offering AI liability insurance – for both the AI companies providing the outputs, and …
Google Adds Event-Driven Webhooks to the Gemini API, Eliminating the Need for Polling in Long-Running AI Jobs
If you’ve ever built a production AI pipeline that runs long jobs — processing thousands of prompts overnight, kicking off a Deep Research agent, or generating a long video —…
Why Gradient Descent Zigzags and How Momentum Fixes It
Gradient descent has a fundamental limitation: on most real-world loss surfaces, it is inefficient. When the surface has uneven curvature—steep in one direction and flat in another, which is common…
Product Walk Through: ThoughtRiver – AI Contract Review
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with ThoughtRiver, the AI contract review system. In this video we look at a range of features, …
The Front Door Your Legal Team Already Has
By Jake Jones, Co-founder, Flank. If you lead an enterprise legal team, your intake process is a mess. It’s a function of the chaos begotten …
A Coding Guide to Survey Bias Correction Using Facebook Research Balance with IPW CBPS Ranking and Post Stratification Methods
In this tutorial, we walk through a complete, end-to-end workflow for correcting bias in survey data using the balance library. We simulate a realistic population, deliberately introduce sampling bias, and…
As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’
The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI’s job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.
White House Weighs AI Checks Before Public Release, Silicon Valley Warned
President Donald Trump’s White House is contemplating whether the US government should be allowed to screen the most powerful AI models before they become available to the public, a significant…